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Show : ANACONDA. : Non-admission of Irish Invincibles Is , Denounced. (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) Anaconda Irish-Americans were very-much very-much w rought up when they read in the Associated Pros dispatches that James Fitzharris and Joseph Mullett, the Irish invincibles recently pardoned by the English government, had been denied a landing in the United States and were ordered deported by a special spec-ial inquiry board at the immigration station in New York. As was stated in the dispatches, the men were recently re-cently released from prison in Ireland, where they were sentenced for complic- j ity in the Thoenix Pak murders of I 1882. They were pardoned by Eearl Cado-gan. Cado-gan. lord lieutenant 6f Ireland, from a sentence of life imprisonment, and j reached New Y'ork among the steerage passengers on the Lucania Saturday i last. Fitzharris, when before the board of i inquiry, was asked of w hat crime he had been convicted and answered: "Treason." A well-known Irish-American citizen of Anaconda, in speaking on the subject, sub-ject, expressed himself as follows: "If a Nihilist conspirator against the Russian czar, having escaped from Siberia, Si-beria, had come to this country, he would be regarded as a political martyr. mar-tyr. Fitzharris is, however, an Irishman, who so thoroughly detested English misrule in his native land that he actually ac-tually conspired to remove one of the most cold-blooded, perdious and malignant mal-ignant tyrants that ever oppressed his county, viz., the late under secretary, Mr. Burke, who had been the cause of having severela innocent men executed. England has pardoned Fitzharris long before the expiration of his sentence, but our present golrious administration, in order to display their attachment to England, have refused the unfortunate exile a shelter in the land of Washington. Washing-ton. "What a sad and striking instance of degeneracy is presented to viw by this contemptible action of McKinley and his time-serving minions! What an appalling falling away from the standard stand-ard of those generous days when an act of congress was passed to make John Mitchell a citizen the moment he touched American soil." |